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More specifically, using some level of mtDNA divergence as a yardstick for species boundaries ignores the low precision with which coalescence of mtDNA predicts phylogenetic divergence at nuclear genes (Hudson and Turelli 2003).
They will insist, through legislation and other means, that Beijing's behavior toward Hong Kong become the yardstick by which Washington determines its level of cooperation with China.
The Post has a perhaps-too-friendly story about the Pope, who's visiting Mexico: "To understand the significance of this pontiff, it helps to see him through his own eyes, and measure him by the yardstick of church history."
Why should the U.S. public accept the yardstick JacobWeisberg offered us for "measuring the Clinton foreign-contributions scandal" in his defense of the Democrats, "Does Everybody Do It?"
A WP "Outlook" piece proposes establishing a moral "yardstick" for American intervention in international conflicts: If for example the war death rate exceeds five times the U.S. national murder rate, then we should strongly consider military (as well as humanitarian) involvement.